MSU Office of the Provost

Welcome from the Office of the Provost

Greetings Students, Faculty and Friends of MSU;

As Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, it is my pleasure to
welcome you to Montana State University — a premier land grant research university!
I serve as the chief academic officer and work closely with the university president,
the deans of our academic colleges and other campus leaders to ensure that we provide
students a top-notch, world class education to meet their career goals and learning
aspirations. My office manages academic programs, procedures and policies for the
academic life at Montana State University including faculty development and shared
governance, academic program and curriculum establishment, course scheduling and enrollment
management, accreditation and assessment.

We are proud of the breadth and quality of the academic programs that MSU offers to
students across the state, the country and the globe in a beautiful place for a reasonable
cost. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in over 60 areas with many different options,
master's degrees in 56 programs with additional graduate certificate options and doctoral
degrees in 33 fields. We offer several fully online graduate programs and online undergraduate
degree completion options.

MSU has about 500 full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members who teach classes
and conduct research in seven academic colleges. Our faculty are teachers and scholars
— they come to MSU from some of the leading institutions in the world and many are
recognized as top scholars in their fields. Our faculty and staff take seriously our
mission to provide an outstanding education to our students, to further knowledge
and scholarship through research and creative activity, and to serve others by sharing
our expertise.

Last year over 3,000 students earned degrees in an array of exciting discipline areas,
including: nursing, engineering, computer science, business and finance, agriculture,
social science, mathematics and statistics, humanities and arts, education, architecture,
the physical sciences and many more. We truly embrace our role of providing the highest
quality learning experience to each and every student at Montana State University
by living our vision of improving the human prospect through excellence in education,
research, creativity and civic responsibility.

We’d love to hear from you — whether your interest is in participating in one of our
many undergraduate degree programs, learning more about our cutting edge research
and graduate programs, completing a degree that you started at another place or time,
or collaborating with our exceptional scholars and teachers. I encourage you to browse
our web pages and to learn more about the work we do to support students, faculty,
staff, the state of Montana and distant corners of the world. Come and visit. We look
forward to meeting you!